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ReviewBiosensors2017

Detection of Lipid and Amphiphilic Biomarkers for Disease Diagnostics.

Jessica Z Kubicek-Sutherland, Dung M Vu, Heather M Mendez, Shailja Jakhar, Harshini Mukundan

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Review in Biosensors, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jessica Z Kubicek-SutherlandPhysical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. jzk@lanl.gov.
Dung M VuPhysical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. dvu@lanl.gov.
Heather M MendezDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. hmendez@unm.edu.
Shailja JakharPhysical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. sjakhar@lanl.gov.
Harshini MukundanPhysical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. harshini@lanl.gov.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid diagnosis is crucial to effectively treating any disease. Biological markers, or biomarkers, have been widely used to diagnose a variety of infectious and non-infectious diseases. The detection of biomarkers in patient samples can also provide valuable information regarding progression and prognosis. Interestingly, many such biomarkers are composed of lipids, and are amphiphilic in biochemistry, which leads them to be often sequestered by host carriers. Such sequestration enhances the difficulty of developing sensitive and accurate sensors for these targets. Many of the physiologically relevant molecules involved in pathogenesis and disease are indeed amphiphilic. This chemical property is likely essential for their biological function, but also makes them challenging to detect and quantify in vitro. In order to understand pathogenesis and disease progression while developing effective diagnostics, it is important to account for the biochemistry of lipid and amphiphilic biomarkers when creating novel techniques for the quantitative measurement of these targets. Here, we review techniques and methods used to detect lipid and amphiphilic biomarkers associated with disease, as well as their feasibility for use as diagnostic targets, highlighting the significance of their biochemical properties in the design and execution of laboratory and diagnostic strategies. The biochemistry of biological molecules is clearly relevant to their physiological function, and calling out the need for consideration of this feature in their study, and use as vaccine, diagnostic and therapeutic targets is the overarching motivation for this review.

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BiomarkersBiosensing TechniquesHumansLipid MetabolismLipidsSurface-Active AgentsBiomarkersLipidsSurface-Active Agentsamphiphilebiomarkersbiosensorsdiagnosticslipid

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PMID28677660
PMCPMC5618031

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